But, more to the point, he had a gift for writing a versicle, And a wit that was both wry and rather perversical. |
Pieces like this may have been composed as a sort of trope on that versicle to be sung in the Divine Office. |
And the versicle, 'Glory be to the Father,' etc., is then said. |
After the repetition of the Antiphon at the end of the last Psalm of a Nocturn, is said the appropriate Versicle and Respond according to the Office of the Day. |
And at the end of what seemed to be a versicle of his chant he called Bluebeard. |
He gives a Sunday-school feast every year, which begins with a versicle and a response. |